Extended Metaphor

If anything can rival the sledgehammer subtlety of the falsehoods that led to Britain's independence from the Strasbrussels dictatorship, it is the devastating delicacy of the Nemesis that has followed. From the clown-car crassness of Davids Davis and Frost to the flatulent Z-list comedy that is the continuing story of Gammon Broadcasting News, every dimension of the affair has gone as pear-shaped as the National Johnson himself. The latest among the fallen, or at any rate the soon-to-be-demolished, is the hotel where Fishy Rishi signed the deal with the beastly Euro-wogs that finally brought the Johnson-Frost fiasco within workable distance of the present planet. The Fairmont Windsor Park has received an extension at the hands of a squillionaire Conservative donor who made a unilateral decision that the terms of the planning permission did not apply to him. In further accordance with the Brexit pattern, he has been duly smacked down by a larger and more sensible power, and now has just under six weeks to bring his little folly into compliance with the law, or else knock down the whole building and clear up the rubble. How many knighthoods he will gain by his act of patriotic heroism remains as yet unclear.